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Mapics
Products Overview
MAPICS
XA Product Family
MAPICS
is the most widely-used manufacturing software system in the
world. Its modular design allows selecting from more than 40
applications to custom configure the right solution for a
specific manufacturing situation -- while preserving your
ability to add additional application modules at any time.
These applications address all areas of your
business.
Business
Management
The
MAPICS XA Business Management application modules will ease
the demands of running a business in what is often a small
staff environment. This product group includes seven
integrated core applications. Cross Application Support,
Visual WorkPlace, PowerVision, Executive Information System,
Electronic Commerce, Manufacturing Performance Analysis and
Info WorkPlace.
Convenience...
control... results... through integrated information
management tools.
Cross-Applications
Support (CAS) manages the system and its data, handles
security, installation and tailoring duties, user "help"
function and more.
Visual
WorkPlace (VWP) is a graphical user interface available to
users of all AS/400-based MAPICS XA applications.
PowerVision
(PV) is a graphical information access tool which combines
data from multiple applications and presents it in
convenient Windows formats with drill-down access to
supporting detail.
Executive
Information System (EIS) presents summarized business
measurements (finance, manufacturing and sales) and stores
successive measurements for trend analysis.
Electronic
Commerce (EC) is a comprehensive MAPICS interface to outside
electronic communications facilities including EDI, FAX and
more.
Manufacturing
Performance Analysis (MPA) provides a series of continuous
measurements to assist production management in monitoring
the relative health of the MRP II portion of the system.
Info
WorkPlace (IWP), including Jacana and Valet, provides
easy-to-use tools for generating custom reporting from
MAPICS and all other AS/400 data.
MAPICS
Browser (MB) is a Windows® based inquiry tool allowing
easy and customizable access to critical business
information in MAPICS XA.
Demand
Management
The
MAPICS XA Demand Management application modules provide
support for high quality responsive customer service. This
product group includes five integrated core applications:
Customer Order Management, Market Monitoring and Analysis,
Sales Analysis, COM_Net and Forecasting.
Consistent...
efficient... responsive... marketing performance for
customer service.
Customer
Order Management (COM) captures customer product
requirements quickly and effectively and monitors an order's
progress through shipment.
Marketing
Monitoring & Analysis (MMA) is a graphical sales
analysis tool which quickly pinpoints product, customer and
channel sales and profit activities to the finest level of
detail. The more traditional Sales Analysis (SA) is for less
demanding marketing situations.
COM_Net
allows MAPICS users to provide their customers with Internet
access for order entry and inquiry.
Forecasting
(FCST) uses sales history to project future demand.
Engineering
Management
The
MAPICS XA Engineering Management application modules provide
tools that define and manage manufacturing information for a
business and production environment. This product group
includes five integrated core applications: Product Data
Management, PDMPlus, Enterprise Product Data Management,
Estimating and Quote Management and Knowledge-Based
Configurator.
Efficiency...
competitive power... through systematized
production.
Product
Data Management (PDM) provides a single repository for
product and process definitions and performs product
(standard) costing.
PDMPlus
provides the means to display product and process
information graphically - allowing engineers to use
"point-and-click" to examine and modify item information.
Estimating
& Quote Management (EQM) quickly defines customer
requirements for quoting custom designs.
Enterprise
Product Data Management (EPDM) provides powerful inquiries
and integrated workflow capabilities for creating and
maintaining product data with site and revision level
support.
Knowledge-Based
Configurator (KBC) helps define products in build-to-order
environments.
Operations
Management
The
MAPICS XA Operation Management application modules assist in
the "operations" of the plant floor in a manufacturing
facility. This product group includes five integrated core
applications: Inventory Management, Production Control and
Costing, Repetitive Production Management, Production
Monitoring and Control, Purchasing and Procurement
Management.
Efficiency...
timeliness... through linked processes and
activities.
Inventory
Management (IM) tracks warehouse balances, processes
inventory transactions, cycle counting and inventory
valuation.
Production
Control & Costing (PC&C) schedules manufacturing
operations, sets priorities, accepts activity reporting,
manages work flow, provides work center analysis and tracks
actual manufacturing order costs.
Repetitive
Production Management (REP), for continuous flow production,
schedules production lines, handles material movement via
electronic Kanban and tracks schedule compliance.
Production
Monitoring & Control (PM&C) is the interface for
automated data collection equipment for reporting production
activities, inventory movement and (payroll) time and
attendance.
Purchasing
(PUR) supports quotes, requisitions and purchase orders,
vendor performance measurements and receiving
(dock-to-stock) activities.
Procurement
Management (PM) provides the capability to manage and
control the acquisition of essential materials using the
MAPICS client server architecture.
Resource
Planning
The
MAPICS XA Resource Planning application modules determine
material, labor and machine requirements and help to assure
that a proper supply of each is available. This product
group includes fine integrated core applications: Master
Production Schedule Planning, Material Requirements
Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning, InterSite
Logistics and Multi-Environment InterSite Logistics, and
Finite Capacity Planning and Scheduling.
Market
responsiveness... accuracy... through managed products and
projections.
Master
Production Schedule Planning (MPSP) tools support production
planning, master scheduling, resource requirements planning,
rough-cut capacity planning and
available-to-promise.
Material
Requirements Planning (MRP) develops recommended purchase
and production activities needed to meet customer
requirements.
Capacity
Requirements Planning (CRP) simulates plant-floor loading
for pro-active workflow management.
Finite
Capacity Planning and Scheduling (FCPS) is a
state-of-the-art finite capacity scheduler and graphical
management tool.
InterSite
Logistics and Multi-Environment InterSite Logistics
(ISL/MISL) provide a multi-site planning system to manage
supply and demand of manufactured goods.
Financial
Management
The
International Financial Management (IFM) family of financial
applications offers powerful multinational capabilities for
complex organizations which require multi-company,
multi-currency and/or international language and taxation
features which make it easy to streamline and integrate your
worldwide enterprise.
Fiscal
security... profitability... transmitted through local and
global integration.
International
Financial Management features fully integrated General
Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules,
including cash management, budgeting and flexible reporting
functions.
A
Fixed Assets accounting module completes the IFM financial
offering. IFM brings the necessary controls and function
required to do business in a complex, global economy.
In
addition, the Accounting Management (AM) family of financial
applications offers powerful integrated capabilities for
smaller to mid-size operations that do not require extensive
multinational, multi-language and drill-back capabilities
included in the International Financial Management product
family.
General
Ledger (GL) receives transactions, keeps the ledger in
balance and produces financial reports.
Accounts
Payable (AP) manages open invoices and payments.
Accounts
Receivable (AR) completes the cash flow management procedure
with captured invoice information received directly from
Customer Order Management (or manual entry) and manages cash
receipts.
Financial
Analysis (FA) extends the General Ledger with budgeting,
fixed asset accounting, financial ratio calculator,
recurring journal entries and a report writer.
ControllerVision
(CV) is a financial reporting and consolidation application
which brings world class financial statement production
capability to MAPICS Accounting Management General
Ledger.
USA
Payroll (PR) supports flexible payment and deduction
processing and interfaces to MAPICS XA manufacturing.
Contract
Accounting (CA) tracks activities and costs from multiple
purchasing and manufacturing activities -- over an extended
period of time -- and applies them to specific
contracts.
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